--- title: Under pressure, easy things go wrong because nerves block memory for… — Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing mom… · tree and pragmatics description: Under pressure, easy things go wrong because nerves block memory for a moment, so it said nothing about how clever he was; when Dad told his own spelling-bee disaster, they laughed together, and a month later Callum was saying "because" in a silly voice himself. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (easy things, nerves, memory, Callum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:reflection:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson:5 # text = Under pressure, easy things go wrong because nerves block memory for a moment, so it said nothing about how clever he was; when Dad told his own spelling-bee disaster, they laughed together, and a month later Callum was saying "because" in a silly voice himself. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = reflection # lesson = 011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Under under ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 pressure pressure NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 4 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 go go VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 8 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 block block VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBZ:Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 memory memory NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:nmod 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:conj 19 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 18 obj _ _ 20 about about SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 22 clever clever ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 ccomp _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 25 ; ; PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 26 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 28 advmod _ _ 27 Dad Dad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 30 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 31 spelling spelling NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 32 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 31 punct _ _ 33 bee bee NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 disaster disaster NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 38 together together ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 month month NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=46:obl:unmarked 43 later late ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 46 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=42:advmod 44 Callum Callum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 conj _ _ 47 " " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ _ 48 because because ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 46 ccomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=46:obj 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 48 punct _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 silly silly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=48:nmod 54 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 46 obl _ _ 55 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: other - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed form=decl, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | present | easy things | | | pressure | | wrong *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under pressure=Location | | 2 | **block** | present | nerves | memory | | | moment | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer memory=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | memory | nothing | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | | 4 | **is** | past | Callum | | | | | clever *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Dad | Callum's own bee disaster | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent disaster=Recipient | | 6 | **laugh** | past | nerves *= nerve* | | | | | together *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · progressive | Callum | Callum | | a silly voice | | late *property* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in voice=Manner | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:reflection:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson:5`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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